Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Billie Walsh]

On 12/30/2010 08:27 AM, Boggess Rod wrote:
>> Kubuntu is a very poor effort at sticking KDE on Ubuntu - Ubuntu's core
>> >effort is very much in Gnome.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Avi
> As I am becoming painfully aware as I attempt to learn this desktop on
> my newly formatted hard drive. Grr. There's nothing more frustrating
> than knowing exactly where everything is, only to discover that nothing
> works the way it's supposed to.

It sounds to me like your moving from KDE 3.x to KDE 4.x.

> First round of additional installations and the package kit dies a
> painful death. Hmmm. Did you know that you can't reinstall or verify
> install on the GUI package kit? I don't know whether this is possible on
> GNOME, either, but only because IT NEVER CRASHED!

First thing to do, as recommended many time on this list, is to install 
Synaptic for a package manager. Kpackagekit is a joke by the developers. 
Not a good one though.

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